Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 2 | The moment I judge I can safely lower [ interest rates ] , I will . ’ |
| 3 | I regret I can not give the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the mountains : I never mastered them , adopting instead roughly similar English equivalents ; thus , for example , Ceathreamhnan to me was Chrysanthemum … |
| 4 | I regret I can not give the petitioner relief . |
| 5 | But I regret I can not agree with some of the reasoning in the judgments . |
| 6 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 7 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 8 | ‘ I fear I can not help you . |
| 9 | ‘ I fear I can not help you , ’ the voice concluded smoothly . |
| 10 | I mean I can not believe that the guy |
| 11 | Alan what I I do n't know the answer to what you 're proposing I really do n't know the answer and er I mean I can only go on the , my , my experiences and my experiences are I 've never ever consciously or not aware of ever having bought any as a result of |
| 12 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 13 | Well I mean I can always collect it Thursday night . |
| 14 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 15 | ‘ Then if I go back and change I can still make the reception . ’ |
| 16 | Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ? |
| 17 | The final letter declares : ‘ Indignation and shame I can never feel ; therefore not despair , either . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I realise you can not afford to run all the time but , that said , it should still be the first thing you have a look at , ’ he reasoned . |
| 19 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 20 | Some people say you can actually taste the clover in it . |
| 21 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 22 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 23 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 24 | Once we have achieved the result we want we can then decide whether laser printed output is suitable or use the services of a bureau to get the same file photoset on the higher resolution equipment . |
| 25 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |
| 26 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 27 | Are you going to , when you do your care packages say we can only award so much , we 'll have to reduce it , arbitrarily ? |
| 28 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 29 | There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever . |
| 30 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |